BCM8441
®
16-PORT 1GB, 2G, 4GBPS FIBRE CHANNEL FABRIC SWITCH FOR EMBEDDED
APPLICATIONS
BCM8441 - Based Fabric Switch
• Highly integrated System-on-Chip (SOC)
16 Fibre Channel ports
32-bit, 66-MHz PCI interface
Integrated SERDES
1G, 2G, 4G Link Data Rates
Auto-speed Negotiation
N, NL, F, FL and E Port Types
Point-to-Point, Fabric and Arbitrated Loop topologies
Per-port Frame Processing
Public / Private Address translation
Two Virtual Channels per port
Non-blocking Cross-bar, Arbiter / Scheduler
128 Gbps aggregate switching bandwidth
Less than 1usec latency
Integrated statistics
Internal data-path protection
JTAG, Memory BIST, Active SI / Active LI Diagnostics, Link
and system loop-backs
LED controller per port
High Performance 0.13u process technology
12W power consumption: 1.25V core, 2.5V/3.3V I/O
40mm x 40mm, 792 pin EBGA package
Fabric Switch
Embedded Fabric Switch
Root Fabric Switch
RAID
FBOD, SBOD
Enables highly reliable, low-cost, small form-factor system
design
Highly integrated
Low power consumption
Features and flexibility providing a broad range of
deployment applications
Reference system design available
Fabric services and Device Driver Software
FEATURES APPLICATIONS
BENEFITS
1.25V : Vortex Core, SerDes
4Gb/s 2Gb/s 1Gb/s (CML)
1.8V: BCM5365P/ 5834 Core
3.3V: PCI, LED, MIPS Peripheral
Bus, RS232, MII (diff.)
BCM5365
Sentry5
Processor
BCM8441
SDRAM/
DDRAM
512MB
PCI
33 MHz 32Bit
100 MHz, 32Bit
CPLD
Boot
Flash
FLASH I/F
P1
SFP
TX RX
up to 16 x 4G/2G/1 G FC ports
4G/2G/1 G SerDes
Magnetic/
RJ45
Serial
Port
PC
I
C
o
r
e
USB
1. 1
Host
5- port
10/ 100
Switch
Temperature
& Voltage
Monitor /
MOD_DEF
LED
ctrl
LEDs
RS
2
3
2
TX
+/-
,
R
X
+/-
Disk-on-
Chip
RTC/
NV- SRAM
cs
2.5 V : DDR SDRAM
GPIO
I2C
SPI
Fan
Sensors
P16
SFP
TX RX